Lisa Ann Richey
Biographic Data
| ID | 129128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Ann Richey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Richey |
| SIGNATURE | RICHEY L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3116-2531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 332 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Commodifying compassion in the digital age: The promise and perils of tech for good
Digital and data-driven technologies are transforming the humanitarian and development sectors. With the promise of faster, more efficient and accurate aid delivery, these technologies are often designed and implemented in partnerships between aid organizations and private technology firms. Consequently, “Tech for Good” has emerged as a significant humanitarian domain, where Big Tech companies aspire to create innovative technological solutions t…
Everyday humanitarianism amongst Tanzanian elites: A new perspective on localisation
The needs for humanitarian assistance outstrip human and financial resources, and the international humanitarian system has long proven unable to respond to all the needs. This has led to a call for more actors to get involved in humanitarian assistance, a call for inclusion of local actors to make humanitarian action more efficient and less ‘top-down’, and a call to build humanitarian responses based on the values and institutions of the affecte…
Business Helping in Crisis: Tourism’s Response to Covid-19 in Tanzania as Everyday Humanitarianism
Disasters can function as social disruptors, shifting the day-to-day relations of power in response to the crisis. In Tanzania, coronavirus disease-2019 (Covid-19) was not nationally acknowledged as a disaster in the same ways as in neighbouring countries. Yet, in northern Tanzania, where much of the economy depends on tourism, it was a disaster. This article examines how Tanzanian tourism companies responded to the Covid-19 crisis through the in…
While development goes down the drain, capitalism profits from “helping”: A response to Ilan Kapoor and Gavin Fridell
This article responds to the article by Kapoor and Fridell from this issue, “Reworking Development Today: What Drain Theory and Decoloniality Lack.”
How the Institutional Context Creates a Neoliberal Politics of Aid: An Italian Case Study
Transnational 'helping' today relies upon partnerships with private companies as enshrined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, creating Faustian bargains of neoliberalism. However, a knowledge gap remains over how state institutional structures produce these neoliberal solutions. This article explores the case of Italy, an under-researched development actor, to analyse the interactions between its development institutions and the…
Swiping to end hunger: The problematic politics of humanitarian donation apps
The emergence of humanitarian donation apps promises to revolutionize aid by making it easier for people to give to humanitarian causes with just a few swipes on the smartphone in the palm of their hands. Yet, little is known about the implications of this for the politics and ethics of contemporary aid. This article explores the politics of humanitarian donation apps through an in-depth study of the World Food Programme's donation app ShareTheMe…
The perils of 'tech for good' lie in its politics of helping
Vexing political questions of power, inequality and coloniality permeate the tech sector and its growing use of global 'virtual' assembly lines that see them penetrate even refugee camps in efforts to extract value. As a response, tech companies have been expanding non-commercial activities within a presumed framework of humanitarianism, in part, trying to outweigh the negative implications of unjust business practices often characterised by thir…
Why does capitalism feel so right? Ethical imaginaries of prison labour and sisterhood solidarity
Humanitarian logics enable the unfree labour of racialized capitalism by making visible the beneficence of those who profit. Understanding the structure of feelings undergirding these imaginaries will help us to recognize why capitalism feels so right. This paper theorizes from the case of the Made in Prison company selling luxury clothing under the brand, Carcel, to explain how linking consumption with ‘helping’ remakes exploitation into gendere…
The messy practice of decolonising a concept: Everyday humanitarianism in Tanzania
This article 1 explores the messy practice of decolonising a concept through collaborative work between scholars researching together the meaning of everyday humanitarianism in Tanzania. Humanitarianism is typically understood as the state-centric, formal, Northern-driven helping of distant others in crisis. Using the concept of everyday humanitarianism, our article challenges these assumptions in three ways. First, it explores the everyday human…
Google’s Tech Philanthropy: Capitalism and Humanitarianism in the Digital Age
Transnational tech companies have become important actors in global philanthropy. Led by tech giants such as Google, this tech philanthropy consists not just of donating funds to expert organizations and ngo s but also, importantly, in using the companies’ own expertise and products to create social impact. This philanthropy is celebrated as innovative and criticized as exploitative for its novel ways of combining capitalism with global helping. …
Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development
White People and the Animals they Love
Book review of: Saving endangered species: lessons in Wildlife Conservation from Indianapolis Prize Winners edited by Shumaker, R. W. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2020 (pp. 333) Edited Collection (9781421439563) $34.95
South-South humanitarianism: The case of Covid-organics in Tanzania
Tanzania's President sent a plane to Madagascar in May 2020 to bring a shipment of Covid-Organics, a purported cure and prevention for COVID-19. The herbal remedy was described as a gift to help African countries in need. Drawing on preliminary data in English and Kiswahili from unstructured participant observation, social and legacy media available online and shared through contact channels, and ongoing conversations, we explore the Tanzanian po…
Why are humanitarian sentiments profitable and what does this mean for global development
Commodifying Covid-19: Humanitarian Communication at the Onset of a Global Pandemic
Corporations have become prominent actors in responding to COVID-19. Within the context of increasing privatization of humanitarianism and marketization of social justice, corporate marketing has played a part in the “interpretive battles” to define the global crisis of COVID-19. Understanding corporate COVID-19 communications contributes to understanding the politics of the global pandemic. This article analyzes companies’ humanitarian communica…
Brand Aid and coffee value chain development interventions: Is Starbucks working aid out of business
Celebrity Humanitarianism: Using Tropes of Engagement to Understand North/South Relations
Celebrity humanitarianism has been transformed in its scope, scale, and organization in the last thirty years. Its flourishing has generated considerable academic interest from a wide variety of disciplines that share two characteristics. First, these studies are—unusually—well connected, which means that different disciplines have not tended to develop their own separate literatures, but learn from each other’s approaches. This makes it useful a…
Eclipsed by the halo: ‘Helping’ brands through dissociation
‘Helping’ distant others through ‘Brand Aid’ humanitarianism may be one of the most successful dissociational branding practices of all. In this short commentary, I argue that humanitarian ‘helping’ itself can become a branded commodity, as understood by Ibert et al. (2019). I draw on the dissociational framework to reconsider the concept of ‘brand aid’ as a link between ethical consumption, international development, and the commodification of h…
Humanitarian humor, digilantism, and the dilemmas of representing volunteer tourism on social media
How is volunteer tourism practice portrayed and policed in an online setting? First, this article describes three humanitarian-themed campaigns—Radi-Aid on YouTube, Humanitarians of Tinder on Tumblr, and Barbie Savior on Instagram—to consider the ways edgy humor might be employed to rebuke and resolve problematic humanitarian practices as well as representations of the African “other” and the humanitarian self. Second, through an inspection of re…
Why we lie about aid: Development and the messy politics of change
Book review of: Why we lie about aid: development and the messy politics of change . By Pablo Yanguas. London: Zed Books. 2018. 275pp. Pb.: £17.00. ISBN978 1 78360 933 8. Available as e-book
Afropolitanism, celebrity politics, and iconic imaginations of North–South relations
‘Afropolitanism’ has become a disputed term referring to diverse engagements by Africans who are typically members of the cultural elite and participate in diaspora politics, online activism, fashion and literature debates. Simultaneously, in discussions of development aid, celebrity has become a way of mediating between proximity and distance in imagining relationships between South and North. Afropolitanism can be usefully considered as an Afri…
"Conceptualizing "Everyday Humanitarianism: Ethics, Affects, and Practices of Contemporary Global Helping
Humanitarianism has become increasingly widespread in our public life- from celebrity culture to Twitter messaging and from Christmas shopping to concert-going. This Special Issue introduces the concept of "Everyday Humanitarianism" for understanding an expanded series of practices in the lives of citizens that purport to make a difference outside the traditional boundaries of professional humanitarian activity. The term can also refer to the quo…
Celebrity-led development organisations: The legitimating function of elite engagement
The past decade has seen a frontier open up in international development engagement with the entrance of new actors such as celebrity-led organisations. We explore how such organisations earn legitimacy with a focus on Madonna’s Raising Malawi and Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative. The study draws from organisational materials, interviews, mainstream news coverage, and the texts of the celebrities themselves to investigate the construction o…
Everyday Humanitarianism: Ethics, Affects and Practices Special Issue Call For Papers
Our starting point in this special issue is in opening up traditional understandings and practices of humanitarianism to bring multi-faceted approaches to a classical area of political inquiry. As the rhetoric and practice of humanitarian good-doing becomes increasingly widespread in our public life—from celebrity culture to Twitter messaging and from Christmas shopping to concert-going—key questions arise. What does humanitarianism look like in …
Celebritizing Conflict: How Ben Affleck Sells the Congo to Americans
From serving as UN ambassadors to appearing as spokespersons for major NGO campaigns, global celebrities have become increasingly important actors in promoting humanitarian causes in Africa. Yet the growing visibility and proliferation of celebrity humanitarianism has been critiqued for legitimating and promoting neoliberal capitalism and global inequality. This article, using emerging literature on celebrities in north-south relations, analyzes …
Better (Red)TM than Dead? Celebrities, consumption and international aid
Bono's launch of Product (red)TM at Davos in 2006 opens a new frontier for development aid. With the engagement of companies such as American Express, Converse, Gap and Emporio Armani, and now Hallmark, Dell and Microsoft, consumers can help hiv/aids patients in Africa. Aid celebrities-Bono, Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Farmer-guarantee the 'cool quotient', the management and the target of this new modality of aid. red functions using the guarantee of …
New actors and alliances in development
New actors and alliances in development' brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars exploring how development financing and interventions are being shaped by a wider and more complex platform of actors than usually considered in the existing literature. The contributors also trace a changing set of key relations and alliances in development - those between business and consumers; ngos and celebrities; philanthropic organisations and t…
"Conceptualizing "Everyday Humanitarianism: Ethics, Affects, and Practices of Contemporary Global Helping
Humanitarianism has become increasingly widespread in our public life- from celebrity culture to Twitter messaging and from Christmas shopping to concert-going. This Special Issue introduces the concept of "Everyday Humanitarianism" for understanding an expanded series of practices in the lives of citizens that purport to make a difference outside the traditional boundaries of professional humanitarian activity. The term can also refer to the quo…
Counselling Citizens and Producing Patronage: Aids Treatment in South African and Ugandan Clinics
Global health interventions to provide antiretroviral (ARV) drug treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries have linked global and local actors in unprecedented ways. These uneven relationships have been described as creating new forms of citizenship that challenge the liberal understanding of rights and responsibilities bestowed by the state. A comparative case study based on fieldwork from South Africa and Uganda suggests…
Buying into development? Brand Aid forms of cause-related marketing
Consumers, partnering with corporations and celebrities, are forming new alliances in international development through what we call ‘Brand Aid’ initiatives. At a time of shifting relationships between public and private aid, commodities are sold as the means of achieving development for recipients and good feelings for consumers simultaneously. In this article we first formalise our conceptual model of Brand Aid at the triple interface of causes…
Celebrity Humanitarianism: Using Tropes of Engagement to Understand North/South Relations
Celebrity humanitarianism has been transformed in its scope, scale, and organization in the last thirty years. Its flourishing has generated considerable academic interest from a wide variety of disciplines that share two characteristics. First, these studies are—unusually—well connected, which means that different disciplines have not tended to develop their own separate literatures, but learn from each other’s approaches. This makes it useful a…
South-South humanitarianism: The case of Covid-organics in Tanzania
Tanzania's President sent a plane to Madagascar in May 2020 to bring a shipment of Covid-Organics, a purported cure and prevention for COVID-19. The herbal remedy was described as a gift to help African countries in need. Drawing on preliminary data in English and Kiswahili from unstructured participant observation, social and legacy media available online and shared through contact channels, and ongoing conversations, we explore the Tanzanian po…
Brand Aid and coffee value chain development interventions: Is Starbucks working aid out of business
Bono's Product (RED) Initiative: Corporate social responsibility that solves the problems of ‘distant others’
The Product (RED) initiative was launched by Bono at Davos in 2006. Product RED is ‘a brand created to raise awareness and money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by teaming up with iconic brands to produce RED-branded products’. With the engagement of American Express, Apple, Converse, Gap, Emporio Armani, Hallmark and Motorola, consumers can help HIV/AIDS patients in Africa. They can do so simply by shopping, as a perc…
In Search of Feminist Foreign Policy: Gender, Development, and Danish State Identity
This article investigates the extent to which the Danish state's identification with gender issues is transferred into Danish development policy. Is Denmark pursuing a gender and development policy that is radically different from most other Western donor states and, if not, why might we see a less progressive policy in Denmark than we might expect from a domestically `feminist' state? In this article, it is suggested that the very nature of deve…
Why are humanitarian sentiments profitable and what does this mean for global development
Humanitarian humor, digilantism, and the dilemmas of representing volunteer tourism on social media
How is volunteer tourism practice portrayed and policed in an online setting? First, this article describes three humanitarian-themed campaigns—Radi-Aid on YouTube, Humanitarians of Tinder on Tumblr, and Barbie Savior on Instagram—to consider the ways edgy humor might be employed to rebuke and resolve problematic humanitarian practices as well as representations of the African “other” and the humanitarian self. Second, through an inspection of re…
Serving Class: Masculinity and the Feminisation of Domestic Service in Tanzania
Janet Bujra, Serving Class: masculinity and the feminisation of domestic service in Tanzania. International African Library 24. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, for the International African Institute, 2000, 206 pp., £14.95, ISBN: 0 7486 1484 2 paperback. - Volume 72 Issue 3
Celebritizing Conflict: How Ben Affleck Sells the Congo to Americans
From serving as UN ambassadors to appearing as spokespersons for major NGO campaigns, global celebrities have become increasingly important actors in promoting humanitarian causes in Africa. Yet the growing visibility and proliferation of celebrity humanitarianism has been critiqued for legitimating and promoting neoliberal capitalism and global inequality. This article, using emerging literature on celebrities in north-south relations, analyzes …
Everyday Humanitarianism: Ethics, Affects and Practices Special Issue Call For Papers
Our starting point in this special issue is in opening up traditional understandings and practices of humanitarianism to bring multi-faceted approaches to a classical area of political inquiry. As the rhetoric and practice of humanitarian good-doing becomes increasingly widespread in our public life—from celebrity culture to Twitter messaging and from Christmas shopping to concert-going—key questions arise. What does humanitarianism look like in …
Brand Africa: Multiple transitions in global capitalism
a. Lisa Ann Richey, Roskilde University and Stefano Ponte, Danish Institute for International Studies - Brand Aid and Africa b. Fantu Cheru, Nordic Africa Institute - The Right to Consume: Compassion and the Intricate New Phase of Capitalism and Africa c. Rita Abrahamsen, University of Ottawa - Africa in a Global Political Economy of Symbolic Goods d. Graham Harrison, University of Sheffield - Images and Representations of Africa: Old, New and Be…
Women's Reproductive Health & Population Policy: Tanzania
Population policies have rarely been linked to economic policy, although the promoters of economic liberalisation also support the embrace of population policy as important to the economic wellbeing of African states. Using a case study from Tanzania, I argue that population policies with a limited focus on fertility reduction may continue to be successful in the context of post-adjustment African health care systems, but policies that aim for th…
Construction, Control and Family Planning in Tanzania: Some Bodies the Same and Some Bodies Different
The benefits of family planning for those who desire it, and the possibilities of coercion against those who do not, are well-known aspects of international population policies. Family planning technologies, more than simply a means for preventing conception, are involved as identity artefacts in the construction of bodies and in the reproduction of power relations. As such, modern contraceptives, organized by and implemented through, donor-funde…
Family planning and the politics of population in Tanzania: International to Local Discourse
Population politics in Tanzania reflect multiple understandings of the 'problem' of population. While Tanzania has a long history of family planning service provision through its childspacing programmes, a national population policy was not adopted until 1992. This work explores the ambiguity and ambivalence reflected in the discourse surrounding the Tanzanian National Population Policy. Although an international consensus on questions of populat…
Celebrity-led development organisations: The legitimating function of elite engagement
The past decade has seen a frontier open up in international development engagement with the entrance of new actors such as celebrity-led organisations. We explore how such organisations earn legitimacy with a focus on Madonna’s Raising Malawi and Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative. The study draws from organisational materials, interviews, mainstream news coverage, and the texts of the celebrities themselves to investigate the construction o…
HIV/Aids in the Shadows of Reproductive Health Interventions
In December 1999, the Tanzanian president declared HIV/AIDS a national disaster. By the time the National Policy on HIV/AIDS was released in 2001, an estimated 750,000 women of reproductive age were infected. Yet in spite of the impact of HIV on reproductive health, AIDS and reproductive health programmes are still thought of and implemented through separate channels, to the detriment of both. However, although AIDS remains in the shadows of repr…
Fertility and Household Labour in Tanzania: Demography, Economy, and Society in Rufiji District, c. 1870-1986
Matthew Lockwood, Fertility and Household Labour in Tanzania: demography, economy, and society in Rufiji District, c. 1870-1986. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, £35.00, ISBN 0 19 828752 4. - Volume 71 Issue 2
Why does capitalism feel so right? Ethical imaginaries of prison labour and sisterhood solidarity
Humanitarian logics enable the unfree labour of racialized capitalism by making visible the beneficence of those who profit. Understanding the structure of feelings undergirding these imaginaries will help us to recognize why capitalism feels so right. This paper theorizes from the case of the Made in Prison company selling luxury clothing under the brand, Carcel, to explain how linking consumption with ‘helping’ remakes exploitation into gendere…
Eclipsed by the halo: ‘Helping’ brands through dissociation
‘Helping’ distant others through ‘Brand Aid’ humanitarianism may be one of the most successful dissociational branding practices of all. In this short commentary, I argue that humanitarian ‘helping’ itself can become a branded commodity, as understood by Ibert et al. (2019). I draw on the dissociational framework to reconsider the concept of ‘brand aid’ as a link between ethical consumption, international development, and the commodification of h…
Celebrity-black: The meanings of race and performances of aid celebrity outside the mainstream Hollywood/UK circuit
This article studies the intersection between race, culture and celebrity in the context of Danish ‘aid celebrities’ by analysing the radicalised ‘celebrity persona’ of the Gambian-Danish A-list actress, singer, director and comedian Hella Joof. The analysis pays particular attention to her performances as Fairtrade Ambassador and as host in an annual aid telethon Danmarks Indsamling. These performances of the ‘aid celebrity’ position are read ag…
Family planning and the politics of population in Tanzania: International to Local Discourse
Population politics in Tanzania reflect multiple understandings of the 'problem' of population. While Tanzania has a long history of family planning service provision through its childspacing programmes, a national population policy was not adopted until 1992. This work explores the ambiguity and ambivalence reflected in the discourse surrounding the Tanzanian National Population Policy. Although an international consensus on questions of populat…
In Search of Feminist Foreign Policy: Gender, Development, and Danish State Identity
This article investigates the extent to which the Danish state's identification with gender issues is transferred into Danish development policy. Is Denmark pursuing a gender and development policy that is radically different from most other Western donor states and, if not, why might we see a less progressive policy in Denmark than we might expect from a domestically `feminist' state? In this article, it is suggested that the very nature of deve…
Fertility and Household Labour in Tanzania: Demography, Economy, and Society in Rufiji District, c. 1870-1986
Matthew Lockwood, Fertility and Household Labour in Tanzania: demography, economy, and society in Rufiji District, c. 1870-1986. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, £35.00, ISBN 0 19 828752 4. - Volume 71 Issue 2
Serving Class: Masculinity and the Feminisation of Domestic Service in Tanzania
Janet Bujra, Serving Class: masculinity and the feminisation of domestic service in Tanzania. International African Library 24. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, for the International African Institute, 2000, 206 pp., £14.95, ISBN: 0 7486 1484 2 paperback. - Volume 72 Issue 3
Women's Reproductive Health & Population Policy: Tanzania
Population policies have rarely been linked to economic policy, although the promoters of economic liberalisation also support the embrace of population policy as important to the economic wellbeing of African states. Using a case study from Tanzania, I argue that population policies with a limited focus on fertility reduction may continue to be successful in the context of post-adjustment African health care systems, but policies that aim for th…
HIV/Aids in the Shadows of Reproductive Health Interventions
In December 1999, the Tanzanian president declared HIV/AIDS a national disaster. By the time the National Policy on HIV/AIDS was released in 2001, an estimated 750,000 women of reproductive age were infected. Yet in spite of the impact of HIV on reproductive health, AIDS and reproductive health programmes are still thought of and implemented through separate channels, to the detriment of both. However, although AIDS remains in the shadows of repr…
From the Policies to the Clinics: The Reproductive Health Paradox in Post-Adjustment Health Care
Construction, Control and Family Planning in Tanzania: Some Bodies the Same and Some Bodies Different
The benefits of family planning for those who desire it, and the possibilities of coercion against those who do not, are well-known aspects of international population policies. Family planning technologies, more than simply a means for preventing conception, are involved as identity artefacts in the construction of bodies and in the reproduction of power relations. As such, modern contraceptives, organized by and implemented through, donor-funde…
Lover, mother or worker: Women's multiple roles and the HIV/Aids and reproductive health agenda in Tanzania
International and national campaigns to prevent HIV/AIDS and efforts to promote reproductive health remain separate in terms of conceptualisation and implementation. Local negotiations around reproductive health issues similarly seem to lack explicit attention to HIV/AIDS. This paper argues that even in reproductive health clinics a gap exists between the extent of knowledge of HIV/AIDS and AIDS talk. There also appears to be a mismatch between c…
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I dette nummer er følgnde bøger blevet anmeldt:Ann-Catrine Edlund, Eva Erson og Karin Milles: Språk och könn. Norstedts Akademiska Förlag, 2007.Simon Sjørup Simonsen: Mænd, sundhed og sygdom – Ronkedorfænomenet. Forlaget Klim, 2006.Janet Mancini Billson and Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (eds.): Female Well-Being: Toward a Global Theory of Social Change. London and New York, Zed Books, 2005
Science, Denial and Politics: Boundary Work” in the Provision of Aids Treatment in South Africa
Political debates over HIV/AIDS in South Africa have boundaries demarcated by science. South Africa probably has more than five million people living with HIV/AIDS—the highest number of any country in the world. It also hosts the world’s largest program for providing antiretrovirals (ARVs). Yet the national government is notorious for its lack of leadership on AIDS issues and for its president’s questioning of the link between HIV and AIDS, accus…
Better (Red)TM than Dead? Celebrities, consumption and international aid
Bono's launch of Product (red)TM at Davos in 2006 opens a new frontier for development aid. With the engagement of companies such as American Express, Converse, Gap and Emporio Armani, and now Hallmark, Dell and Microsoft, consumers can help hiv/aids patients in Africa. Aid celebrities-Bono, Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Farmer-guarantee the 'cool quotient', the management and the target of this new modality of aid. red functions using the guarantee of …
Global knowledge/local bodies: Family planning service providers' interpretations of contraceptive knowledge(s)
Contraceptive technologies and the knowledges that are constructed around them are simultaneously global and local. Family planning methods in the context of international development interventions are interpreted and understood as part of the relatio
Bono's Product (RED) Initiative: Corporate social responsibility that solves the problems of ‘distant others’
The Product (RED) initiative was launched by Bono at Davos in 2006. Product RED is ‘a brand created to raise awareness and money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by teaming up with iconic brands to produce RED-branded products’. With the engagement of American Express, Apple, Converse, Gap, Emporio Armani, Hallmark and Motorola, consumers can help HIV/AIDS patients in Africa. They can do so simply by shopping, as a perc…
Antiviral but Pronatal? ARVs and Reproductive Health: The View from a South African Township
Republic of Therapy: Triage and sovereignty in West Africa's time of Aids
In Plato's Republic, Socrates argues that one should seek wisdom and, lacking knowledge, one should try to learn from an expert. In Republic of Therapy, the experts range from the international AIDS industry to Ivorian healers, activists, and friends of the author. Nguyen, a medical doctor and anthropologist, writes from his work as a community organizer among HIV-positive groups in West Africa, as an AIDS physician in an Abidjan clinic, and as a…
(Product)redtm: How Celebrities Push the Boundaries of 'Causumerism
PRODUCT)REDTM (hereafter RED) is a cobranding initiative launched in 2006 by the aid celebrity Bono to raise money from product sales to support The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. In this paper we argue that RED is shifting the boundaries of 'causumerism' (shopping for a better world) by enrolling consumers in ways that do not rely on accurate knowledge of the products or specific understanding of the cause that The Global F…
The Lazarus Effect of Aids Treatment: Lessons Learned and Lives Saved
During the treatment decade of rolling out antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) in African clinics, new social meanings have been created, and they link local people living with HIV/AIDS to Western communities in new ways. The health of African “others” has taken a central, new, and perhaps quasi-religious role in Western societies. Working on behalf of humanitarian organizations to combat modern emergencies is the contemporary embodiment of an ideal, pur…
Brand Africa: Multiple transitions in global capitalism
a. Lisa Ann Richey, Roskilde University and Stefano Ponte, Danish Institute for International Studies - Brand Aid and Africa b. Fantu Cheru, Nordic Africa Institute - The Right to Consume: Compassion and the Intricate New Phase of Capitalism and Africa c. Rita Abrahamsen, University of Ottawa - Africa in a Global Political Economy of Symbolic Goods d. Graham Harrison, University of Sheffield - Images and Representations of Africa: Old, New and Be…
Counselling Citizens and Producing Patronage: Aids Treatment in South African and Ugandan Clinics
Global health interventions to provide antiretroviral (ARV) drug treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries have linked global and local actors in unprecedented ways. These uneven relationships have been described as creating new forms of citizenship that challenge the liberal understanding of rights and responsibilities bestowed by the state. A comparative case study based on fieldwork from South Africa and Uganda suggests…
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The association between social networks and self-rated risk of HIV infection among secondary school students in Moshi Municipality, Tanzania
This study describes the social networks of secondary school students in Moshi Municipality, and their association with self-rated risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted among 300 students aged 15-24 years in 5 secondary schools in Moshi, Tanzania. Bonding networks were defined as social groupings of students participating in activities within the school, while bridging networks were…
Toward New Knowledges in Development: New Actors and Alliances
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